chefly

Pertaining to, similar to, or about chefs or cooks.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to, similar to, or about chefs or cooks.
    • The best urban-rustic chefs, including Chez Panisse's Alice Waters, Zuni Cafe's Judy Rodgers and Campanile's Mark Peel, reinterpret the cuisine by using really good ingredients, putting them together with chefly skill...
    • He roared, and a female souschef dashed over to scoop up the hat and pins and return him to his previous chefly glory. - 2007 August 7, Nancy Fairbanks, Bon Bon Voyage, page 54:
    • I was the newest executive chef in Toscorp, Pino's umbrella company, looking as chefly as possible in my brand-new Bragard jacket with my name stitched in appropriate Tuscan blue, standing in the front cocktail area of...

Origin

From chef + -ly. Piecewise doublet of chiefly and headly.